Augmented Reality

Embankment (detail) by James Abell
Embankment (detail) by James Abell

The difference between augmented reality

and virtual reality is a Bengal tiger

called Richard Parker

who emerges from Life of Pi [private]

and walks down Oxford Street

– an animal framed by a mortal hand,

captured in a screen which shatters

the illusion that seeing is believing.

 

We construct our own versions

of the world, so why not look

through a bus stop window

and see what we want to see.

“Life is a story

…you can choose your story”. [/private]

Eveline Pye

About Eveline Pye

Eveline Pye worked in a Zambian Copper Mine for ten years and lectured in Statistics at Glasgow Caledonian University for twenty years. Her poems about Africa and Mathematics have been widely published in literary magazines, newspapers and anthologies. Her statistical poetry was featured in the Royal Statistical Society’s magazine, Significance, in September 2011 as part of their Life in Statistics series. She is poetry editor of New Voices Press and the Federation of Writers (Scotland) and was an invited poet at the Bridges Conference 2013 in the Netherlands which promotes a constructive dialogue between mathematics and the arts.

Eveline Pye worked in a Zambian Copper Mine for ten years and lectured in Statistics at Glasgow Caledonian University for twenty years. Her poems about Africa and Mathematics have been widely published in literary magazines, newspapers and anthologies. Her statistical poetry was featured in the Royal Statistical Society’s magazine, Significance, in September 2011 as part of their Life in Statistics series. She is poetry editor of New Voices Press and the Federation of Writers (Scotland) and was an invited poet at the Bridges Conference 2013 in the Netherlands which promotes a constructive dialogue between mathematics and the arts.

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